Progressive Era

This time period was between the 1890s and 1920s in which there were many political and social reforms. the reforms mainly focused on fixing problems caused by Industrialization, Urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.

• Progressive Era

• Reform

• Muckrakers

• 17th Amendment

Change for the better

• Progressive Era

• Reform

• Muckrakers

• 17th Amendment

Investigative reporters who exposed corruption

• Progressive Era

• Reform

• Muckrakers

• 17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

• Progressive Era

• Reform

• Muckrakers

• 17th Amendment

Banning the sale and consumption of alcohol (Prohibition)

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• Suffrage

• Square Deal

Gave women the right vote (minority women are excluded until later in the 1900s)

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• Suffrage

• Square Deal

The right to vote

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• Suffrage

• Square Deal

Founded in 1910 by W.E.B. DuBois to advance the cause of African Americans by fighting for equal rights.

• NAACP

• 19th Amendment

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Square Deal

Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling

• NAACP

• 19th Amendment

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Square Deal

Ida B. Wells was a muckraker who exposed the corruption of what subject?

• Lynching

• Meat Packing Plants

• Living Conditions

• Politicians